Ariz. Admin. Code § 17-5-319

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R17-5-319 - Traffic Survival Schools

A. The Department shall assign an individual only to a traffic survival school licensed by the Director under this Article.

B. A traffic survival school or qualified instructor shall allow only students who provide acceptable proof of traffic survival school assignment to register for and attend a traffic survival school course. The following documents are acceptable proof of assignment:

1. Notice of traffic survival school assignment or suspension for failure to attend traffic survival school,

2. An order from a court or other appropriate tribunal from Arizona or another state indicating traffic survival school assignment,

3. Traffic survival school proof of assignment form obtained from the Department,

4. Electronic verification of traffic survival school assignment through the Department's private entity, or

5. Motor vehicle record.

C. On enrollment of a student in, or on a student's attendance of, a traffic survival school course, a licensed traffic survival school shall collect the statutory enrollee fee provided in A.R.S. § 28-3411, unless the student has paid the enrollee fee in advance. The licensed traffic survival school also shall collect the records fee prescribed by A.R.S. § 28-446, if applicable, before the student attends the traffic survival school course. The licensed traffic survival school shall fully remit these fees to the private entity within four business days after a student completes the traffic survival school course. If a licensed traffic survival school does not timely remit the enrollee fees, the Department or private entity may notify the traffic survival school that its prospective future students will be required to prepay the enrollee fees until remittances are current. The amount of the enrollee fee charged by the private entity shall be negotiated by the Department and the private entity and shall be set forth in their contract.

D. A traffic survival school or qualified instructor shall not:

1. Conduct courses with a number of students in excess of the classroom's fire safety capacity reported to the Department or private entity by the licensee under R17-5-321;

2. Conduct courses with more than 30 students per qualified instructor;

3. Exclude a translator, the Director, the private entity, or Department personnel from attending courses;

4. Issue a certificate of completion to a student who has not fully completed the required curriculum; or

5. Issue a certificate of completion for a student whom the instructor did not personally instruct.

E. A licensee shall retain for three years all copies of the student's acceptable proof of assignment and the signed class roster of attending students.

F. The private entity may develop and administer a web site that allows individuals who are assigned to traffic survival school to locate and enroll online in traffic survival school courses.

G. Only an individual who meets the qualifications under R17-5-305, remains in compliance with this Article, and who is granted and retains traffic survival school qualified instructor status, may be allowed to teach individuals assigned by the Department to attend a licensed traffic survival school.

H. A licensed traffic survival school must hold at least one course every 60 days at the school's established place of business and each branch, as applicable.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-5-319

Adopted by exempt rulemaking at 29 A.A.R. 1096, effective 9/1/2015.